The Affordable Care Act requires non-grandfathered health plans beginning on or after August 1, 2012 to cover preventive services for women, without cost sharing, such as co-payments. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation estimates that the new law will enable 650,424 Kentucky women to access additional preventive services, including well-woman visits, gestational diabetes screening, HPV DNA testing, STI counseling, HIV screening and counseling, contraception and contraceptive counseling, breastfeeding support, supplies, and counseling, and interpersonal and domestic violence screening and counseling.
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